Early Romantic Era - Early 21st Century

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Period: Jan 1, 1792 to Jan 1, 1868

Franz Peter Schubert

Period: Jan 1, 1797 to Jan 1, 1826

Louisiana Purchase

Jan 1, 1803

Louis Hector Berlioz

Period: Jan 1, 1803 to Jan 1, 1869

Robert Alexander Schumann

Period: Jan 1, 1810 to Jan 1, 1856

Frédéric François Chopin

Period: Jan 1, 1810 to Jan 1, 1849

Franz Ritter von Liszt

Period: Jan 1, 1811 to Jan 1, 1886

War of 1812 Begins

Jan 1, 1812

Wilhelm Richard Wagner

Period: Jan 1, 1813 to Jan 1, 1883

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi

Period: Jan 1, 1813 to Jan 1, 1901

War of 1812 Ends

Jan 1, 1814

Clara Joesphine Wieck Schumann

Period: Jan 1, 1819 to Jan 1, 1896

Early Romantic Era

Period: Jan 1, 1820 to Jan 1, 1860

Bedrîch Smetana

Period: Jan 1, 1824 to Jan 1, 1884

Indian Removal Act

May 28, 1830

Johannes Brahms

Period: Jan 1, 1833 to Jan 1, 1867

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Period: Jan 1, 1840 to Jan 1, 1893

Edvard Hagerup Grieg

Period: Jan 1, 1843 to Jan 1, 1907

Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published

Jan 1, 1852

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

May 1, 1857

Declares blacks as non US citizens

Puccini

Period: Jan 1, 1858 to Jan 1, 1923

Late Romantic Era

Period: Jan 1, 1860 to Jan 1, 1900

Gustav Mahler

Period: Jan 1, 1860 to Jan 1, 1911

American Civil War Begins

Jan 29, 1861

Achille-Claude Debussy

Period: Jan 1, 1862 to Jan 1, 1918

Richard Georg Strauss

Period: Jan 1, 1864 to Jan 1, 1949

Lincoln Assassination/American Civil War Ends

Apr 15, 1865

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Jan 1, 1866

Ku Klux Klan Founded

Jan 1, 1866

Charles Edward Ives

Period: Jan 1, 1874 to Jan 1, 1954

Joesph-Maurice Ravel

Period: Jan 1, 1875 to Jan 1, 1937

Arnold Schönberg

Period: Jan 1, 1875 to Jan 1, 1951

Béla Viktor János Bartók

Period: Jan 1, 1881 to Jan 1, 1945

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

Period: Jan 1, 1882 to Jan 1, 1971

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff

Period: Jan 1, 1895 to Jan 1, 1982

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Jan 1, 1896

Jacob Gershwin

Period: Jan 1, 1898 to Jan 1, 1937

Early 20th Century

Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Jan 1, 1950

Aaron Copland

Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Jan 1, 1990

NAACP Founded

Feb 12, 1909

John Milton Cage Jr.

Period: Jan 1, 1912 to Jan 1, 1992

US Declares war on Germany

Apr 6, 1917

This is what started the United States' involvement in World War I.

Louis Berstein

Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Jan 1, 1990

End of World War I

Jun 28, 1919

The Great Depression

Jan 1, 1920

Stephen Michael Reich

Period: Jan 1, 1936 to May 9, 2017

Nazi Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

American Involvement in World War II

Bombing of Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

Late 20th/Early 21st Centuries

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to May 8, 2017

Brown vs. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

Civil Rights Movement Begins

Jan 1, 1955

Jennifer Higdon

Period: Jan 1, 1962 to May 9, 2017